11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; …
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)The scope of these verses is to keep subjects loyal and dutiful to the government. In Solomon’s reign the people were very rich, and lived in prosperity, which perhaps made them proud and petulant, and when the taxes were high, though they had enough to pay them with, it is probable that many conducted themselves insolently towards the government and threatened to rebel. To such Solomon here gives…
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